Ace The Advanced Nurse Physiology Exam

The innate and adaptive immune system forms the basis of immunity in human beings. Innate immunity is a generalized and non-specific response to pa ...

Landmarks defining the regions of the hypothalamus include the lamina terminalis, pituitary gland, mammillary bodies, and superior hypothalamic sul ...

Neurobiology is a vast and rapidly expanding field with significant clinical and technological implications. Far-reaching questions, such as what c ...

The pineal gland is an endocrine gland that is located in the posterior aspect of the cranial fossa in the brain. Its importance is in the circadia ...

Biliverdin is a tetrapyrrolic, water-soluble compound formed by the breakdown of heme. Heme is br ...

Systemic vascular resistance (SVR), also known as total peripheral resistance (TPR), is the amount of force exerted on circulating blood by the vas ...

The esophagus is a muscular channel that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach. It starts with the upper esophageal sphincter, formed in par ...

Oxygen is primarily transported throughout the body in red blood cells, attached to hemoglobin molecules. Oxygen is also dissolved directly in the ...

In the year 2000, an unidentified hypothalamic neuropeptide found in the quail bird was shown to inhibit gonadotropin hormone release, which resear ...

The body is a complex organism, and as such, it takes energy to maintain proper functioning. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the source of ene ...

There are three varieties of human of muscles: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Skeletal striated muscle is the most abundant type (over 400 distinct ...

Signal transduction is the means by which an electrical, physical, or chemical signal elicits a cellular response by activating a cellular receptor ...

The measurement of carbon dioxide (CO2) was first developed in the early 1900s; however, it was complex and of limited clinical use.

The human cell membrane is the cornerstone of an elaborate interplay between the extracellular and the intracellular worlds. Understanding the phys ...

The vestibular system is a complex set of structures and neural pathways that serves a wide variety of functions that contribute to our sense of pr ...

Boyle’s law is a gas law that describes the relationship between the pressure and volume of gas for a mass and temperature. This law is the m ...

The production of breast milk initiates in larger amounts between 2 and 4 days after the birth of the baby and the breastmilk is said to ...

Thyroid-stimulating hormone, also known as TSH, is a glycoprotein hormone produced by the anterior pituitary. It is the primary stimulus for thyroi ...